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The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. Here is the Product Description: The album contains five self composed tracks of Spiritual and at times very funky Jazz. Black Love is an anthem celebrating Black Culture and features the beautiful and powerful vocals of Ayodele Jenkins. Banks of the Nile is another up tempo and at times almost frantic Spiritual Jazz workout. Mother of the Future has become a jazz dance classic with Dee Dee Bridgewater taking the lead vocals on this slightly freer original version. The version recorded by Norman Connors featuring Jean Carne later in the same year is better known, but this version really cooks with fantastic rhythms and a great solo from Carlos. The yodelling by Carlos Chambers is reminiscent of Leon Thomas and adds another touch of ancestral heritage to the recording. Ebonesque is beautiful whilst Taurus Woman is the albums funkiest track, its twelve and half minutes allowing many members of the band to contribute a fine solo, most notably Mauricio Smith who is excellent on flute. We are delighted to present this album on CD as part of our Classic album series for the first time in nearly twenty years , re-mastered and sounding fresher than ever. This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records

Dusty Groove is reissuing Cannonball's Black Messiah on April 29th http://www.dustygroove.com/item/691999

Dusty Groove has added another 30 or so titles as coming soon (March 12th) from the Japanese Bethlehem series on Solid. 6 Australian Jazz Quartet albums Ralph Burns Bijou Teddy Charles's Salute To Hamp and Ivy League Russ Garcia Wigville and Sounds In The Night Urbie Green - East Coast Jazz No. 6 Herbie Harper Osie Johnson - Happy Jazz Stan Levey - Plays The Compositions... Humphrey Lyttleton - Humph Plays Standards Howard McGhee - Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Dave McKenna & Hal Overton - Dual Piano Jazz Sam Most - Amazing, East Coast Jazz 9, Musically Yours, Plays Bird, Bud, Monk & Miles Terry Pollard Bobby Scott - Compositions, Great Scott Charlie Shavers - Most Intimate, Gershwin, Shavers & Strings Six - S/T, View From Jazzbo's Head Jack Teagarden - Jazz Great George Wein & The Storyville Sextet - Metronome Presents Jazz At The Modern Azie Mortimer - Feeling Of Jazz Milt Hinton - East Coast Jazz 5

That's a good question. The TYCJ of New York Is Now! sounds like a different mix to my ears, but I don't know. Addey didn't pan the horns out as much (if I'm using the terminology correctly). The TYCJ is very much stereo, if you know what I mean. It's nice to have both editions to go back and forth with. I could be off here, but Addey's edition sounds more neutral over all. I bought the Addey editions of both discs (New York is Now! & Love Call) in 1990 — now almost 25 years ago! Hard to believe. The music hasn't aged a bit. One of the perks of re-purchasing a title (read: here comes the rationalization) is checking it out all over again, and re-connecting with the music. I remember buying those discs for the first time — along with the Elvin Jones Lighthouse discs — and scratching my head and loving them simultaneously. This TYCJ series — according to Google Translate — is being compiled by Michael "Kusu-kuna" and "Whereabouts" Hitoshi. The highlight of Google Translate has to be from the Warner Japan Series as The Jazz Modes - The Most Happy Fella album is translated as "Jazz Morse - Most Happy Blow Job" http://wmg.jp/jazz1000/index_05.html

Information on this series is available on Universal Japan's site. Michael Cuscuna appears to be involved. Here is the link: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/prestige7000. And here is the link for the New Jazz series: http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/prestige-newjazz

Freddie McCoy Prestige years Carlos Garnett Muse years Cannonball Adderley - unreissued Capitol years Dave Bailey - Epic years properly remastered (Sony Japan is starting a reissue campaign in February and the Charlie Rouse and Curtis Fuller Epics have been announced, hopefully the Bailey's will be part of a future wave - for those interested in what else is forthcoming you can search by the catalog number SICP on HMV Japan).

Everything I have ordered from Mosaic (including purchases in the last few months) has come via Canada Post and I have never paid Customs on a Mosaic order.

I am really excited about this release. Michael Cuscuna hinted at this release in an email he sent me three years ago. I had given up hope. I would love a Carlos Garnett set but at the time MC said it was unlikely to happen. The Muse catalog is now under the control of SLG, LLC which is the Savoy Label Group. I wonder if any Savoy projects will be forthcoming?

Done It Again is very good. It was reissued by Get On Down in a mini-LP sleeve in 2011.

Dusty Groove (in partnership with Real Gone Music) has three more reissues from the Concord vaults scheduled for July 2: Ahmed Abdul Malik - Spellbound, Stan Hunter & Sonny Fortune - Trip On The Strip and George Braith - Musart. To my knowledge, none of these have been on CD before.

When Dusty Groove first posted their wave of Concord releases which also includes the Wayne Henderson produced Allspice and Larry Williams, Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Spellbound was part of the batch. Unfortunately, they removed it after a week. I hope it is still forthcoming and there is no issue with the master tapes.

JLH, I will buy anything you reissue as the first three were fantastic but I would also like to know if the expanded Joe Daley is still going to happen.

Dusty Groove and Real Gone teamed up to reissue these albums. They are remastered from the original tapes and they sound great but the music is inconsistent. The Steig didn't move me but the Gene Harris twofer is fantastic. As far has Dusty Groove peddling punch hole / promo copies I have been fine with that especially in the case of the OJC stuff because most of them are priced at 3.99 or 4.99.

Dusty Groove now has it for sale ($129.99): http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=m8bzrjmygq&ref=index.php Individual tracks can be downloaded on iTunes or you can download the whole package on iTunes for more than DG is selling the physical item.

I have been hoping that Sony Legacy would do one of their Pop Market Complete Albums collections of this material. A Mosaic would be fine as well.

Hip O Select / Verve Select is releasing Volume 2 of the Clifford Brown Master Takes on Oct 22nd. No description on amazon as yet but here is the link anyway: http://www.amazon.com/Emarcy-Master-Takes-Clifford-Brown/dp/B0094GW93W/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1347551620&sr=1-1&keywords=clifford+brown

Warner Japan have announced the third and fourth series to be released in August and September. http://wmg.jp/jazz1000/index_03.html

In adiition to Gleam, Dusty Groove list the following as forthcoming from Wounded Bird: Eleventh House - Level One Lighthouse - Lighthouse Michael Urbaniak - Fusion III

I think the Rod Levitt would be an excellent choice. It may not be a five star album but it's very good and very interesting and to my knowledge has never been issued completely on CD.

Wounded Bird is reissuing the very rare Freddie Hubbard album "Gleam" (originally released on CBS Japan). Release date is June 12 and it's the first CD release. http://www.discogs.com/Freddie-Hubbard-Gleam/release/1833534 http://www.amazon.com/Gleam-Freddie-Hubbard/dp/B007Y57OVC/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1335809132&sr=1-1

1,000 Yen price point suggests plastic jewel cases.

I saw after I posted that the Adderley had been reissued but I gave up on Collectables years ago. I don't have a lot of these titles on CD so I am happy that they're getting decent releases. On the link I posted there are placeholders for a third and fourth series of releases which will hopefully contain the Grassella Oliphant albums as, again, the Collectables edition was weak and it was the last straw for me.

For anyone interested, on April 25th Warner Japan will reissue 50 Atlantic / Vortex / Embryo Catalog titles as part of the Jazz Best Collection and all will be remastered in 24 bit. Some of these titles were previously reissued by Collectables and they can now go in the garbage where they belong (IMO). There will be a second batch of 50 on May 23rd. The highlight for me is Nat Adderley's Autobiography (first CD issue). Here is the link: http://wmg.jp/jazz1000/

I noticed on Amazon that Concord is planning three more OJC Remasters for May 15: Bill Evans Moonbeams, Monk's Misterioso and Jazz at Massey Hall and a Stax remaster of Albert King's I'll Play The Blues For You. I am not sure why they wouldn't do Joe Alexander's Blue Jubilee or Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Spellbound or the John Wright's that Fantasy didn't get around to doing. It seems if you piggyback an unkown title with an Evans and Monk reissue people would take a chance. I would but maybe I am the exception.

Jonathan, thank you for taking the time to search out the Gene Shaw material. But I think the general discussion as been about Shaw's Carnival Sketches and to a lesser extent Debut In Blues. While I like Breakthrough, it is my least favorite of the three. But still essential for Shaw's trumpet playing.